Abstract:
A system for measuring the pseudo range from a first GPS sensor to a designated navigational satellite, for use in a satellite positioning system (SPS) is comprised of first and second GPS sensors for receiving and recording first and second portions of the signal transmitted by the designated navigational satellite, the recordings referred to as the first and second datagrams; and means for transmitting the first and second datagrams to a datagram processing facility wherein the pseudo range from the first GPS sensor to the designated navigational satellite is extracted. The datagram processing facility for extracting the pseudo range is further comprised of a pseudo range engine for extracting a pseudo range from a datagram originating with said first GPS sensor, the location of which is to be determined, the extraction accomplished with the aid of a perfect reference; and a perfect reference engine for generating a perfect reference from a datagram originating with a second GPS sensor designated for the express purpose of perfect reference generation. The perfect reference reduces the minimum number of satellites required to fix a position from four to three, and further enables the pseudo range engine to recombine multi-path GPS signals.
Abstract:
A system for reducing peaks comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to determine a phase offset for each of a plurality of input signals. The phase offset for each of the plurality of input signals are determined using one or more trials of phase offsets to determine a selected set of phase offsets. The processor is further configured to modulate the plurality of input data signals using the selected set of phase offsets to produce a plurality of modulated phase offset data signals and to generate a sum of the plurality of modulated phase offset data signals, wherein the sum has a lower peak value during a trial of the one or more trials of phase offsets as compared to the sum during another trial not using the selected set of phase offset signals. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
Abstract:
A positioning system is provided in which a client device samples a transmission from any suitable terrestrial wireless source. The resulting samples are correlated with replica samples to determine a position of the client device using time-difference-of-arrival-based calculations.
Abstract:
A satellite-based positioning system (SPS) signal processing technique re-samples a received series of PRN sequences from an SPS satellite to align them with a nominal sampling rate for a corresponding series of perfect reference PRN replica sequences.
Abstract:
A system for reducing peaks comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to determine phase offsets for a plurality of input signals. The phase offsets are determined using trials of phase offsets to determine a selected set of phase offsets. The processor is further configured to modulate the input data signals using the selected set of phase offsets to produce modulated phase offset data signals and to generate a sum of modulated phase offset data signals, such that the sum has a lower peak value as compared to the sum not using the selected set of phase offset signals.
Abstract:
A low complexity primary user detection system is disclosed. Signals are filtered to reduce the number of signals that must be processed. Width and PRI of the signals are used to match a constellation associated with a primary user. If the constellation is matched, communication parameters are adjusted to make way for the primary user.
Abstract:
A method for estimating the location of a beacon from an ensemble of measurements associated with said beacon, where, contained in each measurement, are GPS data from which surfaces of location may be extracted, together with the ID's of beacons detectable at the point of measurement, is disclosed. The method comprises extracting the canonical set of surfaces of location implicit in each of the associated measurements, and determining the estimate of the location of the beacon as the point for which a weighted sum of the squares of the distances to each of the surfaces so extracted is minimized. A system for the compilation of a database of beacon locations from measurements containing a time-stamped recording of the composite GPS signal (which recording is referred to as a datagram), together with the ID's and associated signal strengths of beacons detectable at the point of measurement, is also disclosed. The system comprises GPS signal processing means for extracting, from each time-stamped datagram, the canonic set of surfaces of location, and beacon location estimation means for estimating the location of a beacon from an ensemble of surfaces of location associated with said beacon.
Abstract:
A technique for low-complexity high-performance coherent demodulation of GFSK signals involves utilizing a novel phase and frequency tracking mechanism coupled with a trellis search technique to track signal memory in the demodulation process. A method according to the technique may include modeling modulation based upon a trellis. The method may further include estimating unknown parameters, selecting a maximum likelihood path through the trellis, and mapping the maximum likelihood path to an output bit sequence. The technique is also applicable to DSPK and other applicable known or convenient protocols.
Abstract:
A technique for PAR reduction involves producing an optimized clipping pulse. The optimized clipping pulse may be designed to meet certain requirements, such as a spectral mask target or an EVM target, when applied to a signal.
Abstract:
A system for measuring the pseudo range from a target GPS sensor to a designated navigational satellite, for use in a satellite positioning system (SPS) is comprised of multiple GPS sensors for receiving and recording portions of the signals transmitted by designated navigational satellites, the recordings referred to as datagrams; and means for transmitting the datagrams to a datagram processing facility wherein the pseudo range from the target GPS sensor to the designated navigational satellite is derived. The datagram processing facility for deriving the pseudo range is further comprised of a pseudo range engine for deriving a pseudo range from a datagram originating with said target GPS sensor, the location of which is to be determined, the derivation accomplished with the aid of a perfect reference; a perfect reference engine for generating a perfect reference from one or more satellite-specific datagrams: and a strong signal suppression engine for synthesizing satellite-specific datagrams from I/F signals recorded by reference GPS sensors designated for the express purpose of perfect reference generation. The perfect reference reduces the minimum signal strength required to acquire and accurately track GPS satellites at or near the horizon.